angus-prune

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by angus-prune 8y ago
No they don't. And I think that we have a right to block ads that to block any and all ads that we receive. Conversely, any (non-critical) service has the right to stop showing us ads or serving us in any other way.
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by angus-prune 8y ago
a) absolutely - they are not stopping you from doing whatever you want on your machine, they are just not allowing to use their service. I don't think anyone would advocate making "ad blocker" a protected characteristic along
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by angus-prune 8y ago
There is a short scifi story from the 50s called the Midas Plague by Frederik Pohl which deals with this in a very silly way. It's available through archive.org https://archive.org/stream/galaxymagazine-1954-04&#x2
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by angus-prune 8y ago
Isn't that exactly the discussion? It is against the highway code to do that, so can't be programmed in, as this would be ultimate premeditation of breaking the law. On the other hand, in the real world, this is how people sometim
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by angus-prune 8y ago
There is a wonderful talk by the founders of emoj.li about how it was all a joke which got out of hand. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsyhGHUEt-k
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by angus-prune 8y ago
Or make a fortune maintaining the legacy rivy and python that the whippersnappers don't understand anymore?
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by angus-prune 8y ago
As many equivalently ambiguous examples could be formed with he or she, particularly when there are more than one person of the same gender. There is ambiguity in all natural language and we work around it quite effectively with either assu
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by angus-prune 8y ago
I don't think that shows a lack of racism, rather the existance of classism. People are being unfairly judged based on racial and class identifiers, rather than on their CV.
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by angus-prune 8y ago
Feynman had a party trick where he could time a minute in his head by counting the seconds and count up the number of lines in a newspaper article. A friend of his tried and couldn't do it, but was able to hold a conversation while tim
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by angus-prune 8y ago
I get a Monzo notification on my phone whenever I make a payment. I often feel my phone buzz before the machine has even finished and allowed me to take my card back. I don't think the percieved speed is simply due to offline mode.
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by angus-prune 8y ago
He posts full schematics on his google+ page - https://plus.google.com/+HenrykGasperowicz Here is the schematic for the 3LEDs & 0 switches video liked by GP - https://plus.google.com/photos/11639842
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by angus-prune 8y ago
A while ago I worked out that every Atari Jaguar ever made could render as many polygons as 2 and a bit PS4s.
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by angus-prune 8y ago
Malcolm in the middle did this very well as oen of their pre-titles bits - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbSehcT19u0
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by angus-prune 8y ago
And processing that IP address is neccersary for the operation of the service offered so entirely acceptable.
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by angus-prune 8y ago
And in the EU we have a different way of working. In the UK you can literally phone up the ICO and get free advice, specific advice on how to stay compliant. If it turns out that you are in breach, they will write to you with information ab
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by angus-prune 8y ago
How so?
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by angus-prune 8y ago
While it is true that large teams are often less efficient than small ones, for many good reasons given above, there is another aspect to consider: Consistency and survivorship bias. This only becomes clear when you compare a big company to
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by angus-prune 8y ago
You've said elsewhere that you're in the 40k range. Median Central London Salary is ~35k, so you're actually well above average salary, even in London.
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by angus-prune 9y ago
actually, if you drill down to tablets, which the GP was referring to, the iOS has 2/3 market share. http://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/tablet/worldwide
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by angus-prune 9y ago
Free speech cuts both ways. You seem to suggestthat OP's control over their own site content (ie the manifesto) is somehow an affront to your belief in google's free speech. You certainly see it as a big enough grievance to write
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by angus-prune 9y ago
Your IP history is wrong. Patents originated in 15th Century Venice and Copyright in 17th Century Britain and trademarks in France in the (iirc) 19th Century. Patents were, indeed, a way to encourage people to share their inventions rather
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by angus-prune 9y ago
Snapchat was snapchat for kids, but then the kids grew up.
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by angus-prune 9y ago
The problem is taking payment. The credit card companies don't allow most of this content and have been known to pressure payment processors to drop specific clients, with the threat of shutting down the entire company. Visa/Maste
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by angus-prune 9y ago
When Apple released the imac without a floppy drive, public opinion definitely wasn't with them. As far as I can tell, that move is now seen as prescient rather than premature.
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by angus-prune 9y ago
They announced, in the talk, that this is all done locally on the phone. The phone will have a database of, iirc, 10,000 songs locally. [edit] typos
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by angus-prune 9y ago
But with flash being deprecated across pretty much every browser and EoL by Adobe, they can't really leave it alone.
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by angus-prune 9y ago
I think you're right that Amazon won't miss this boat (but someone might be able to do it better than them). Amazon are already looking at printing instant-order dash buttons directly on products. I think the things that could thr
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by angus-prune 9y ago
I think the two stances are consistent, and the drawing of shapes actually enforces the "draw what you see". Breaking an object down into its constituent shapes, is based on what you see, rather than the image in your mind. It tur
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by angus-prune 9y ago
I read that as that they'll only work on issues raised under support contract, but would release the fixes to everyone.
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by angus-prune 9y ago
Its been a long time since I read the book, but I remember that being explicitly in the text.

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